# Nelson Shin

Shin Neung-kyun (Korean: 신능균; RR: Sin Neunggyun; born 1939), also known as Nelson Shin, is a South Korean animation director who is the founder and president of Akom Production Co., Ltd., in Seoul, South Korea. He founded Akom in 1985.

## Career

In the 1970s, Shin worked as an animator at the DePatie–Freleng Enterprises and Marvel Productions, where he worked on the Pink Panther films and Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends. While at DFE, he also contributed to the animation of the lightsaber blades in the original Star Wars.
Much of the animation Shin's studio has produced has been for American television series. Some of Akom's credits are: The Simpsons, Batman: The Animated Series, X-Men, Invasion America and Arthur. Shin's most well-known accomplishment is his direction of the television series The Transformers and The Transformers: The Movie. Shin also directed the first season of the Canadian animated TV series, Toad Patrol.
Beginning in 1999, Shin worked on the animated feature film Empress Chung. The film was largely animated in North Korea, and in August 2005 became the first movie ever to open simultaneously in North and South Korea.
In 2009, he was elected president of the International Animated Film Association, a post he held through 2012.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role |
| 1974 | The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat | assistant animator |
| 1974 | The Goose That Laid a Golden Egg | animator |
| 1974 | Heist and Seek | animator |
| 1974 | The Big House Ain't a Home | animator |
| 1974 | Mother Dogfather | animator |
| 1974 | Bows and Errors | animator |
| 1974 | Deviled Yeggs | animator |
| 1975 | Watch the Birdie | animator |
| 1975 | Saltwater Tuffy | animator |
| 1975 | M-O-N-E-Y Spells Love | animator |
| 1975 | Rock-A-Bye Maybe | animator |
| 1975 | Haunting Dog | animator |
| 1975 | Eagle Beagles | animator |
| 1975 | Pink DaVinci | animator |
| 1975 | Pink Streaker | animator |
| 1975 | Salmon Pink | animator |
| 1975 | Goldilox & the Three Hoods | animator |
| 1975 | Pink Elephant | animator |
| 1975 | Keep Our Forests' Pink | animator |
| 1975 | Rockhounds | animator |
| 1975 | Bobolink Pink | animator |
| 1975 | It's Pink, But Is It Mink? | animator |
| 1975 | The Scarlet Pinkernel | animator |
| 1976 | Sherlock Pink | animator |
| 1976 | Rocky Pink | animator |
| 1978 | Pinktails for Two | animator |
| 1978 | Pink in the Woods | animator |
| 1978 | Pink Lightning | animator |
| 1978 | Pink Pictures | animator |
| 1978 | Cat and the Pinkstalk | animator |
| 1978 | Pink Daddy | animator |
| 1978 | The Pink of Bagdad | animator |
| 1978 | Pink Press | animator |
| 1986 | The Transformers: The Movie | director co-producer |
| 1994 | The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure | animation producer |
| 1995 | The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving | animation producer |
| 1996 | The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists | animation producer |
| 2007 | The Simpsons Movie | animation producer |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1974 | The Magical Mystery Trip Through Little Red's Head | animator | TV special |
| 1975 | The Hoober-Bloob Highway | animator | TV special |
| 1977 | My Mom's Having a Baby | animator | TV special |
| 1977 | Bugs Bunny's Easter Special | animator | TV special |
| 1978 | Michel's Mixed-Up Musical Bird | animator | TV special |
| 1978 | The Pink Panther in: A Pink Christmas | animator | TV special |
| 1980 | The Pink Panther in: Olym-Pinks | animator | TV special |
| 1980 | Daffy Duck's Easter Show | animator | TV special |
| 1980 | Pontoffel Pock, Where Are You? | animator | TV special |
| 1981 | Dennis the Menace in Mayday for Mother | director | TV special |
| 1981 | The Pink Panther in: Pink at First Sight | sequence director animator | TV special |
| 1983 | The Charmkins | sequence director | TV special |